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Michael Palin's New Europe (2007)

Michael Palin's New Europe poster
Genre
travel documentary
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 7 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Michael Palin travels through Central and Eastern Europe just after many of these countries joined the European Union. He visits twenty countries and talks to local people about their lives and histories.

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What happens

Michael Palin's New Europe is a travel documentary presented by Michael Palin and first aired in the UK on the BBC on 16 September 2007 and in the US on the Travel Channel on 28 January 2008. Palin visits 20 countries in Central and Eastern and Southeast Europe – the programme was filmed in the wake of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union (and shortly before the 2007 enlargement), which included many of the countries visited by Palin and significantly reshaped east–west relations on the continent. The filming was done in 2006 and early 2007 using HD (high definition) equipment. The result was made into seven one-hour programmes for BBC One and simulcast on BBC HD. A book, New Europe, was also written describing the trip, and illustrated with photographs by Basil Pao. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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